Kenney appoints new head of Black Male Engagement

Mayor Jim Kenney announced Friday that 37-year old Jack Drummond will be the city’s new director of the Office of Black Male Engagement — a position created during the last administration to address the needs of young men of color.

“I’m touched and inspired to have been selected to a position like this,” Drummond said.

Housed within the city’s Office of Public Engagement, the Black Male Engagement Office was created under former Mayor Michael Nutter to broaden the awareness of the issues facing men of color, who often feel disenfranchised.

Earlier in the day, Kenney had visited Pennypack House School, a facility within the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center, which houses juvenile males charges with felonies. He said they had small class sizes, great teachers and great learning materials—resources the inmates were not privy to before they were in prison.